JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Coach - Numeracy
Revision Date:

February 23, 2018
Job Code:
81020
FLSA:
Exempt
Salary Plan:

Certificated
Revised By:

Jessica Slayton
Pay Grade:

Certificated, BA
Comp Reviewed By:
Craig S. Ott

Funding Source:
Work Location:
Local

(3) Budgeted and works in schools
Duration; # of months
10 months
Job Summary (2-3 sentences describing job purpose): Facilitates the implementation of mathematics instruction in elementary, middle, or high school classrooms. Serves as a mathematics instructional coach for teachers. Provides ongoing job-embedded professional development, models effective instructional strategies, and leads discussions in research-based best practices in mathematics. Provides expertise and leadership in the implementation of the MNPS Mathematics Curriculum Framework.

Reports to: School principal and Director of Mathematics

Department Name: Curriculum & Instruction
Primary Job Duties/Responsibilities : List, in the order of importance or time spent, the essential duties/tasks performed by the position. This is not an exhaustive list and employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.

Job Duty/Resp. 1:

Supports teachers and their work with students through PLC sessions focused on 4 main components: doing mathematics to deepen content knowledge, analyzing student work to look for evidence of student thinking, rehearsing high leverage teaching practices, and analyzing classroom video to improve pedagogical practice.
Job Duty/Resp. 2:

Engages in one-on-one coaching cycles with mathematics teachers that consist of pre-conferences, observations, and post-conferences.
Job Duty/Resp. 3:

Provides professional development for teachers in research-based best practices, the MNPS Mathematics Curriculum Framework, and information shared at the Mathematics Curriculum and Instruction Update meetings.
Job Duty/Resp. 4:

Serves as a mentor for teachers by assisting with planning lessons and units of study.
Job Duty/Resp. 5:

Regularly attends Numeracy Coach Content Days and Mathematics CIUM sessions.
Job Duty/Resp. 6:

Analyzes student data, along with the administrative team, in order to set school-wide pedagogical goals and an on-going plan to support mathematics instruction.

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Education and Experience Requirements
Education (training/degree): Required minimum: Bachelor's degree in education
Experience Requirements: Minimum of five ( 5) years successful math teaching experience; at least three within MNPS desired. Experience in presenting exemplary teaching practices and evidence of instructional leadership (e.g. team leader, department chair, district-wide committees, etc.)
Licenses, Certifications or Registrations Required: Certificated teaching license in TN
Skills Required: Extensive content knowledge of mathematics, strong reading, writing and speaking skills, positive mindset, ability to develop a plan and execute the details, strong organizational abilities, extensive relationship-building skills, collaborative spirit and openness to new ideas, strong peer network.
General Skills, Responsibilities, Requirements, and Impacts
Data Responsibility:

Level 5: Coordinates or determines time, place, or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data and possibly executes determinations or reports on events.
People Responsibility:

Level 5: Persuades or influences others in favor of a service, course of action, or point of view
Assets Responsibility:

Level 5: Requires responsibility for achieving major economies or preventing major losses through the management of a large department.
Communications Requirements:

Level 6: Reads professional publications; composes complex reports and manuals; speaks formally to small groups within and outside the organization.
Complexity of Work:

Level 7: Performs work involving the application of broad principles of professional management and leadership to solve new problems for which conventional solutions do not exist; requires sustained, intense concentration for accurate results.
Impact of Decisions:

Level 4: Makes decisions with moderately serious impact - affects work unit and may affect other units or citizens.
Equipment Usage (if applicable):
N/A
Safety of Others:

Level 3: Requires responsibility for the safety and health of others and for occasional enforcement of the laws and standards of public health and safety.
ADA Requirements/Compliance
Physical Demands :

Level 2: Requires sedentary work involving standing or walking for brief periods, exerting up to 10 pounds of force on a regular basis; and some dexterity in operating machines, tools, or office equipment.

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Unavoidable Hazards:

Level 1: The position is exposed to no unusual environmental hazards
Sensory Requirements:

Level 2: The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, sense of smell, depth perception, and texture perception.
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires MNPS to provide adequate accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.
Qualifications:
see job description